{"id":824,"date":"2009-06-28T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T11:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:13:47","slug":"peggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Peggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peggle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peggle.jpg\" alt=\"peggle\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peggle.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peggle-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Platform:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Xbox 360<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Developer:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Popcap Games<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Microsoft Game Studios<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;d like to think that years from now, future game developers will study <em>Peggle<\/em> as an example of just how much positive re-enforcement can help a game.\u00a0 <em>Peggle<\/em>&#8216;s central conceit is very basic: aim and fire a ball at a series of coloured pegs.\u00a0 As a foundation for a puzzle game, its nothing special.\u00a0 Its the player-friendly design that makes it really click.<\/p>\n<p>By creating a game with a generous points system that doles out scores by the thousands, gives you &#8216;free&#8217; second attempts for when you screw up badly and <em>Burnout<\/em> Crash-mode style zooming effects to highlight your victories, <em>Peggle<\/em> will almost assuredly make any player feel like a million bucks when playing the game.\u00a0 And thats a feeling that will make you want to come back and play again and again.<\/p>\n<p>I was introduced to <em>Peggle<\/em> on Xbox Live Arcade but I&#8217;ve played it on PC and Nintendo DS as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure it works just as well on almost any other format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform:\u00a0 Xbox 360 Developer:\u00a0 Popcap Games Publisher:\u00a0 Microsoft Game Studios I&#8217;d like to think that years from now, future game developers will study Peggle as an example of just how much positive re-enforcement can help a game.\u00a0 Peggle&#8216;s central conceit is very basic: aim and fire a ball at a series of coloured pegs.\u00a0 As &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,293,292,294],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-5-second-review","tag-peggle","tag-video-game","tag-xbox-live-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14905,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/14905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}